“Look at the list of names among Datamation Product of
the Year 2001 Award winners and you’ll see companies long familiar
to enterprise IT executives — Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Dell,
Palm, Compaq.But it’s the appearance on this year’s list of one relative
upstart — Red Hat — that underscores the major shift under way in
the enterprise. Red Hat, maker of the most successful commercial
version of open-source operating system software, unseated
Microsoft to win in Datamation’s Network and Systems Software
category.Datamation readers gave Red Hat Linux 7.2 more than twice as
many votes than the runner-up in its category, Macromedia’s JRun
Server 3.1. Last year’s winner in this category was Microsoft’s
Windows 2000 Advanced Server.”